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...Odets script, adapted for the screen by James Poe, has been beautifully grained and shaped by two fine craftsmen, and it takes every ounce of strain that Producer-Director Robert Aldrich leans against it. Aldrich gets striking performances from his actors. Jack Palance, a gifted portrayer of brute instinct, is miscast as a man whose problem is the loss of his instincts, but his intensity and sincerity propel the action vigorously even where they confuse its motives. Ida Lupino, as always, is a capable trouper; Shelley Winters makes an amusing roundheel: and Jean Hagen gives her some tart competition. Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Walcott Tuckerman, who made the second goal against Exeter, has a "great" soccer instinct and "should be quite a center forward once he develops a hard shot to match his wonderful ball control," Guyda said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/19/1955 | See Source »

Better that surgeons cut out soldiers' instinct for self-preservation . . . than expect that code to be followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...Harold Rubin at 520 South State Street to buy a $1 necktie, an' he says where you from? An' I says I'm from Texas. An' he says what you doin' here? I says selling coffee farms. An' he says my instinct tells me this is a good deal, I'll buy one." To date, Johnson has sold 63 farms, worth nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Frontier, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

Citation: "Squarejawed in the conviction that America's only hope for survival is in unified effort for peace backed by firm international agreement to combat aggression, he graces the launching platform of the U.N. as a self-guided missile with a homing instinct, primed for a global trajectory, and well laden not with the seed of destruction but the hope of humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

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